Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-13
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss LUCIA I. AMEs, in the Won,-
ans Journal, gives graphic pen-por-
traits of "three Boston girls. +"
Mrs. JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr., is one
of the most enthusiastic of photograph
ic amateurs, and her flower pictures
form collection worth examining.
QUEEN CARoLA, of Saxony, has es-
tablished free kindergarten for the
benefit of children of poor laborers on
her estate, Sibylenort, where she an
nually spends part of the summer.
Miss CHARLOTTE MORRILL,, of Brook
lyn, whose paper received such uni
versal notice at the Mt. Holyoke semi
centennial, has been spoken of as the
possible successor of Miss Freeman as
president of Wellesley College.
MBs. EMMA E. DAVIS, of Hartford,
Conn, has brought suit against the
publishers of the Holyokc Transcript
for $4,000, because of certain articles
published in the Transcript last Febru-
ary, which she considers defamatory.
Mrs Z. L. SAXON rendered most
effective service to the suffrage cause
in Kansas before the passage of the
municipal suffrage bill there. She has
since made her home in Kansas on ac-
count of the Justice done to women in
that State.
Miss KATE FIELD lectured in Alaska
to large and attentive audience. Her
subject was "An Evening with
Dickens" 1t was strange sight in
the Mining Camp of Juneau. the
largest town in Alaska, to hear IA
woman's lecture.
Mrs. MARY P. BABCoCK has pre-
sented to the Northwestern University
the herbarium of her husband, the late
Prof. Henry H. Babcock. The herba-
rum contains more than ten thousand
species, and the plants are mounted in
excellent form. They are from all
parts of the world. Prof. Babcock was
the most eminent botanist in Chicago.
Miss SARAH EWING. of the Sampson
Manufacturing Company's shoe shop,
in North Adams, has won the prize
offered by button machine company,
for the operative who on one of their
machines, would sew on the most but
tons in one day of ten hours. Miss
Ewing's record was 27, 154 buttons, an
average of forty-fve and one-fourth
for each minute in the day.
Mrs. ELIzBBETH POTTER GOULD tells
pleasantly how she became suf-
fragist by attending suffrage sociable
of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
Association and becoming acquainted
with the members, whom she found
very much like other people. She
found them neither odd nor "shriek-
ing" but quietly and earnestly trying
to win friends to their cause.
| Mrs. JAMES BENNETT, of Richmond,
KY, "believes it to be the will of our
Heavenly Father that women shall OBJ
tain suffrage and the equal protection
of the laws by public appeals to the
godlike sentiments of justice. mercy
and love in the hearts of men," has ad-
dressed an open letter to President
Cleveland, asking him to urge Con-
gress to protect women in their rights
as citizens, and especially in their
rights to vote.
MRS. E. A. WHITAKER. editor of the
woman's department of the ~ b.
Farmer, gives excellent suggestions
for summer amusement combined
with instruction, such as collecting
and preparing specimens of insects,
sea-mosses, shells, birds eggs, miner
ais, grasses, flowers and other natural
objects; also the study of botany,
especially by the children of farmers
who have access to many wild flowers;
also, for those who have even few
days by the sea- the collection and
preserving of sea-mosses.
HELEN S. ABBOTT, of Philadelphia,
has been elected a member of the
|, Philosophical Society in that city, of
which Benjamin Franklin was one of
the founders. Only SIX women have
been elected during the one hundred
and twenty years of the society's ex-
istence. The first lady was Franklin's S
: friend, the Princess Dashkoff The
others were Mrs. Mary Somerville,
Maria Mitchell, Mrs Agassiz, and Mrs.
Carl Seller, of Philadelphia, author Of
"The Voice and Singing" Miss
Abbott is admitted for what she has
: done in analytical chemistry.
r Mrs. d. G. CRoLY ('Jennie June")
: has been made president of Mrs. X
: P. Newby's Woman Endowment Ca.
!. tie Company. The company has flee
n its certificates of incorporation in New
|. Jersey, and has capital stock o
o one million five hundred thousand dol
d lars, divided into three Thousand
( shares of five hundred dollars each
The company has control of nearl.
S two million acres of fine grazing lan'
J. in New Mexico, on which there ar
v now six thousand head of cattle. Tn
+ stock is TO be placed with women q
y an endowment for their children.